
Dr. Natalie Naylor, professor emerita, Hofstra University, takes a look at Long Island in the 1920s in a lecture at the New City Library.
Naylor examines the historical reality of an agricultural area with popular seaside settlements as compared with the mythology of history and memory in Fitzgerald's novel.
This program is made possible through the New York Council for the Humanities.
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